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TIL India has a law that grants patents for existing drugs if the current drug is too expensive.

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980M TIL that there is so much coffee in Seattle that there is a measurable caffeine content in the Pacific Northwest’s waters.
mx4WY TIL during the Middle Ages, wild wolves lived in forests near Paris. During the harsh winter of 1450, a pack of hungry wolves managed to enter to city and ate 40 people.
gMp7W TIL Lafayette’s grave in Paris is filled with dirt from Massachusetts as he wished to be buried in American soil. Additionally, I learned the flag remained in place during WW2 because the Nazis never looked behind the private cemetery’s walls.
PY0Ve TIL In the 1950's Kent Cigrarettes used asbestos filters, claiming these filters offered the "greatest protection in health history".
pDrZ TIL of Wabi-Sabi, a principle of Japanese aesthetics that emphasizes beauty found in imperfection